Endless

Been awhile, hasn't it, folks? I have no drive to continue Forever and a Day, and I reloaded my computer. Thankfully, all my fics, including further FAAD chapters were saved. More one-shots coming soon, when I put the CD with all my stuff in. Anyways, even though I adore Violet/Duncan, I know tons of people like Violet/Quigley, so I'm going to write something for you guys. There is no specific time or place for this, so blargh.

Being with Quigley always made Violet feel like nothing bad could ever, ever happen to her. It was an odd feeling, something of comfort and safety. Violet didn't know what it was. Sunny was an infant, Klaus was a boy, Duncan liked her, and Isadora was Quigley's sister, so she had absolutely no one to help her figure it out. Figure out what she was feeling.

Quigley snapped off the end of a carrot and gave it to Sunny. Violet's lips twitched into a small smile. It felt rusty - not an expression she had used lately.

But around Quigley, it couldn't help but come up.

She knew it couldn't be love. Right now, it was too perilous to love anyone. But...it wasn't simply like either. It certainly wasn't in-between. Violet looked down at her hands. It was times like this when the grief for her parents crashed over her like an overpowering ocean wave that she didn't outswim in time. She wanted her mother to be here - to tell her what she was feeling and what she should do about it. To tell her that she was beautiful, and why wouldn't Quigley like her.

To tell her that it was more than like or teenage infatuation, and Violet wasn't being stupid or silly. To tell her that she wasn't abandoning her siblings for a guy, no matter what she believed.

Violet blinked. She believed that?

No. She couldn't. She would never abandon her siblings, and even if she did go out with Quigley, it wasn't abandoning them. She shot another look at him, and immediately her doubts and worries dissolved into the mist outside the window. He gave her a small grin, and then turned back to the carrot, only to discover Sunny had cleverly stolen it from him and was now crunching on the very last of it.

Quigley's grin widened. "She's a sneaky one, huh?"

Ordinarily, Violet would have taken that as an insult - that Sunny was like Olaf, sneaky and devious. But coming out of Quigley's mouth...just made it different. Violet gave a small laugh. It sounded weird. When had she last laughed?

"Yep. Make sure you don't leave the carrot bag unsupervised when she's around," Violet joked. Weird. When had she last made a genuinely lighthearted joke?

Quigley laughed, too. Something inside of Violet glowed.

It was the perfect moment - the two of them laughing it up like they weren't stuck in a series of unfortunate events, and Sunny completely distracted by the carrot bag. If Violet leaned over and kissed Quigley now...

Which she didn't. Instead, she turned her attention to Sunny, and watched her little sister eat the carrot, smiling at the crunch it made when her teeth ground it up.

Violet had chickened out again.

Next time, she told herself. Next time.

She knew it probably wouldn't happen. The quick kiss on the ledge was a memory, nothing more. No matter how many times Violet wished it had grown into something, it didn't.

It'll happen, Violet told herself, knowing full well it wouldn't.

The world kept dropping her endless oppurtunities to tell him, and she couldn't. Just couldn't.

Quigley's voice interrupted her thoughts.

"Violet?"

"Yeah?"

Yay for cliffhangers. Make up whatever happens next yourself. If think he slaps her, that's fine, too. P Though I'd rather...it not be...haha.

Review, please...and say you missed me. Because...you know you did...even if you didn't...say you did...

Yeah. D

-- Emily